AtWaG - (All the World's a Garden)

Is it us or them?

The Garden Centres (Stewarts - I'm a  director) by all accounts had Christmas departments bursting at the seams over the weekend - the bursting was all in the direction of the Coffee shop though with nary a soul venturing into the desolation of tumbleweed alley that is the plant department.
Now the question is, has our treatment of Christmas with all the glitz and razzamatzz alienated real gardeners who might tootle along to us for a few shrubs even in November or has the market changed to the point that as in much of the USA, plants, especially hardy stock is pretty much a dead duck outside of the fair weather seasons.
Should our lovely benches of Skimmias, Hellebores and budded Camellias make way for yet more fake trees, nodding deer, and LED infested Gizmos. If we invested as much effort into plants in Nov and Dec as we do into Christmas would we see a decent ROI or would it be wasted energy better dedicated to Santa time?
WDYT?

Morocco bound

My youngest son is off on an adventure, he'll be leaving on tuesday with two mates to cycle from Bournemouth (UK) all the way to north Africa.
Two reasons for posting this here: firstly to spread the word about what the guys are doing and secondly to solicit donations to the charity they are supporting. Find out more by visiting their Blogsite - Cycle to Africa.

Bye Bye Blogger - Hello Typepad

I've given up with Blogger, just too flakey. Probably down to my multiple Google accounts - the poor thing just got confused! Rather than having various Blogs for my interests I am aiming to mix everything up here and let folks pick out any bits that interest them.